A 37-year-old managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who had been tipped as a rising star in investment banking circles has become the latest banker to move to an in-house corporate role.

Anya Weaving, who worked on several prominent deals in the oil and gas sector during her nine-year stint in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions team, has landed the role of chief financial officer at FTSE 250-listed oil and gas exploration group Soco International, according to a stock market announcement this morning.

The US bank has been a broker to Soco International, which has a market cap of £1.3 billion, since August 2006.

Weaving joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2005, having previously worked in equity research and investment banking at UBS. She was part of the US bank’s team that advised Russia’s Rosneft on the acquisition of TNK-BP for around $55 billion in 2012.

Her deal roster included several for Soco International, including the sale of the firm’s Yemeni assets in February 2008, the disposal of its Thai assets in 2010 and the buyout of a minority partner’s holding in Soco’s Vietnamese subsidiary in July 2012.

Ed Story, chief executive officer of Soco, said in the statement: "We have gotten to know Anya well over the years as a trusted adviser and we are delighted that she is joining Soco. I am confident that with her expertise, wide-ranging industry experience and personal energy Anya will be a great addition to our team."

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has confirmed her departure.

Weaving is the latest banker to swap the sellside for a corporate role. The head of Blackstone’s financial institutions advisory team, Tom Stoddard, will start his new role as chief financial officer of Aviva, the UK insurer which he has advised since last year, on May 5.